By Simon Ebegbulem
BENIN—FORMER Deputy Governor of Edo State and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Rev. Peter Obadan, has described as unreasonable, the statement credited to the state chairman of the party, Chief Dan Orbih, that the Governor Adams Oshiomhole-led government had performed below expectations in the past two years.

He also disagreed with Orbih on the issue of the N30billion which the state government intend to source from the capital market, saying that with the infrastructural developments embarked upon by the governor in the past two years and his numerous achievements, “there is no doubt that the money will be well utilized.”

Rev. Obadan who was commenting on the two years anniversary of the Oshiomhole administration in the state, asserted that even though the PDP is an opposition party, “it does not mean that you should continuously attack.

If a governor is doing well you should praise him so that he can do better. Opposition is not about being antagonistic and unreasonable. We are all one in this state and the fact that we belong to different parties should not set us at enemity with each other.

“And if your brother is doing well praise him and not the other way round. Politics has gone beyond that era. Like I earlier said, Dan Orbih is a personal friend, I have nothing against him but except that he is not the one speaking, it is the voice of Esau and the hand of Jacob.

But he should tell his master that it is not the best way of being an opposition.”
Obadan insisted that Governor Oshiomhole “has done very well with the limited resources at his disposal. If the Local Government chairmen did 30 per cent of what Oshiomhole has done, the entire state would have been transformed.”

I know he is not in my party the PDP, but like I have often stated, as a Christian I know when some thing is good and when some thing is bad. If in two years he can roll out the list of achievements we have seen and felt in the state, he needs to be commended and he needs to be encouraged. He has done very well”.

On the opposition mounted against the move by the state government to source for the N30billion bond from the capital market, Obadan stated that “once you have a developmental plan, and to meet those plans, you do not just go borrowing, you also create avenue for repayment.

Having done their home work they should be allowed to borrow, those worried about it has problems themselves. They cannot take their minds away from the days when people borrow to steal. This is borrowing for development  and this development will remain with us”.